"I thought the idea that trees had souls was a little hokey growing up, " says Yarnall.
He was often criticized as hokey, sentimental and overly dramatic, and sometimes he was.
The effects seem almost hokey now, but at the time they were convincing enough.
There is also something off-putting about his campaign something a bit cultish and a bit hokey.
For Staley, who has seen hokey workplace programs come and go, it was a start.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror's Kevin Maguire questions the motives behind "clodhopper David Cameron's hokey-cokey on Europe".
How to reconcile the mind-blowing originality, the stunning imagination and the self-referential, self-indulgent, slightly hokey imagery at the end?
"As hokey as it sounds, there's more to life than money, " she says.
On the weekend I had a break from reading the Sunday papers to sing the Hokey Cokey with a group of toddlers.
From Topock, on Arizona's western border, Route 66 rolls north to Oatman, passing through the town's craggy hills, begging burros and hokey Old West charms.
At first, Crowther's advice struck me as hokey bordering on overkill.
To describe it sounds hokey, but it was anything but.
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Some of these schemes sound simply too hokey to work.
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At most mountains this would ensure a hokey, pay-for-the-ride experience, but Game Creek, a private members dining lunch club by day, public fine dining by night, is the real deal.
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Cabinet Office minister Ian McCartney said it was symptomatic of "William Hague's weak leadership and bad judgement and his hokey-cokey over Steven Norris shows just why the public don't trust them".
Hokey American Revolution nationalism is gaudy at best.
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In the creative mix as chronicled in the dribs and drabs of YouTube videos that Lincoln has been posting all along are 20 alpacas, 10 turtles, several bikers and a hokey-looking spaceship in a desert setting.
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"We tend to think Brits all have stiff upper lips, but there was a period in our recent history when it was the fashion to go to seances - really hokey, overblown performances - and people wanted to believe them, " says Hall.
And if later in the process they find themselves spread hither and thither in different states, talking to voters only on television, here they are real live politicians going about modern-day politics using old-fashioned tools: stump speeches, hokey fund raisers, dinners in diners.
Charting a spectacularly erratic 24-hour course, the movie juggles self-consciously hokey small-town comedy with slick (or at least semi-slick) high-tech chase scenes as the road-racing desperado leads Forest Whitaker and the feds on a merry chase through the Southwest in his prototype Corvette 01.
When people do buy toys they often shun the large toy retailers and head for discounters, notably Wal-Mart, which now dominates much of American retailing and has just launched a price war in some of the most popular toys, such as this year's must-buy, Hokey Pokey Elmo.
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